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Bill Text

A571 

ASSEMBLY, No. 571 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman ROBERT AUTH

District 39 (Bergen)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Flynn

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires automatic voter registration process at 
local police force locations or Division of State Police providing firearms 
purchaser identification cards.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning automatic voter registration locations and 
amending P.L.2018, c.6.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.� Section 4 of P.L.2018, c.6 
(C.19:31-6.14) is amended to read as follows:

���� 4.��� a.�������� Any State 
agency, except for the Motor Vehicle Commission, that the Secretary of State 
verifies already collects documents that would provide proof of eligibility, 
including age, citizenship, and residence address, may establish and implement, 
upon approval by the Secretary of State, a procedure for automatically and 
electronically transmitting voter registration information to the Secretary of 
State of persons who are eligible to vote for the purpose of registering such 
persons to vote or updating their voter registration. Each person from whom 
such information is collected shall be offered an opportunity to decline 
automatic voter registration. Any such agency shall comply with the 
requirements, to the extent applicable as determined by the Secretary of State, 
as established in subsections b. through d. of section 24 of P.L.1994, c.182 
(C.39:2-3.2).

���� b.��� Any additional agencies 
that are designated for automatic voter registration shall comply with the 
requirements, to the extent applicable as determined by the Secretary of State, 
as established in section 24 of P.L.1994, c.182 (C.39:2-3.2) for automatic voter 
registration and shall provide the notices required pursuant to subsection c. 
thereof to each person from whom such information is collected.

���� c.��� Notwithstanding the 
provisions of this section to the contrary, any local police force or the 
Division of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety issuing 
firearms purchaser identification cards, established pursuant to subsection b. 
of N.J.S.2C:58-3, and that the Secretary of State verifies already collects 
documents that would provide proof of eligibility, including age, citizenship, 
and residence address, shall establish and implement, upon approval by the 
Secretary of State, a procedure for automatically and electronically 
transmitting voter registration information to the Secretary of State of 
persons who are eligible to vote for the purpose of registering such persons to 
vote or updating their voter registration.� Each person from whom such 
information is collected shall be offered an opportunity to decline automatic 
voter registration.� A local police force or the Division of State Police in 
the Department of Law and Public Safety implementing the provisions of this 
subsection shall comply with the requirements, to the extent applicable as 
determined by the Secretary of State, for automatic voter registration as 
established in subsections b. through d. of section 24 of P.L.1994, c.182 
(C.39:2-3.2), including the provision of the notices required pursuant to 
subsection c. thereof to each person from whom voter registration information 
is collected. 

(cf: P.L.2018, c.6, s.4)

���� 2.� This act shall take effect 
on January 1 next following the date of enactment, but the Secretary of State 
may take such anticipatory administrative action in advance thereof as shall be 
necessary for the implementation of this act.

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires the 
establishment of an automatic voter registration process at local police force locations 
or the Division of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety, which 
issue firearms purchaser identification cards.� The bill requires such local 
police forces or the Division of State Police in the Department of Law and 
Public Safety to establish an automatic voter registration process similar to 
that currently applicable at the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (NJMVC).

���� Under the bill, any local 
police force or the Division of State Police in the Department of Law and 
Public Safety issuing firearms purchaser identification cards, that the 
Secretary of State verifies already collects documents that would provide proof 
of eligibility, including age, citizenship, and residence address, would be 
required to establish and implement, upon approval by the Secretary of State, a 
procedure for automatically and electronically transmitting voter registration 
information to the Secretary of State of persons who are eligible to vote for 
the purpose of registering such persons to vote or updating their voter 
registration. �Each person from whom voter registration informat